Category: Science

quick facts What it is: Saguaro, a lower-redshift spiral galaxy Where it is: About 10 billion light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major When it

Although it might be difficult to believe in our hyper-connected lives, there are thousands of people across the planet who remain almost completely disconnected from

These sulfur crystals were found inside a rock after NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over it and crush it on May 30, 2024

Inside the world’s newest data centers, energy-guzzling computations proceed round the clock as AI chatbots and other generative AI tools tackle tasks from the frivolous

About 2,500 years ago, people in what is now India and Sri Lanka were manufacturing an exceptionally high-quality type of steel. Wootz steel was extraordinarily

Millions of people across Europe and North America will witness a solar eclipse on Wednesday, Aug. 12, but the event will vary greatly depending on

Yams and sweet potatoes are often confused, and the names are sometimes used interchangeably in the U.S. However, they’re two different crops. So what sets

Chemical analysis of Bronze Age iron objects indicate that Greek nobles may have indulged in signet rings made with precious metal from the sky.

In simulated conversations, social hierarchy can sway AI agents, making lower-status systems more likely to follow harmful requests.

A first of its kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90 years, but

In a laboratory 2 kilometers underground, a crane lowers Matt Depatie, a detector technologist, through a hatch into a white-walled cavern filled with about 7,000

Your favorite stretchy workout clothes may be much easier to recycle one day, thanks to a new type of elastic yarn that is as strong

Scientists are preparing for an interstellar rescue of humanity’s most distant spacecraft, Voyager 1, after fixing up its twin from billions of miles away. According

Artificial intelligence (AI) has helped uncover new weaknesses in two cryptographic systems, including a simplified version of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) that underpins much